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what is the name of the 10th planet?

Started by nodaystowaste, March 20, 2004, 06:06:46 AM

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Plaidikins

I must try that sometime. Of course, I always put sugar on my cheerios, which might cause some problems...

fullmooner

Oh Oh!!! and I accidently tried caviar on a lambourghini...[did I spell that right?], but you need a white wine with it.

Guido Finucci

Quote from: fullmoonerOh Oh!!! and I accidently tried caviar on a lambourghini...

How do you 'accidentally' try caviar? Especially on a car.

I am having twisted cartoon visions of high speed gourmet messiness that all ends in tears.

Plaidikins

Quote from: fullmoonerOh Oh!!! and I accidently tried caviar on a lambourghini...[did I spell that right?], but you need a white wine with it.

You were close, it's lamborghini. No 'u'.

And you're right, white wine, for sure.

Plaidikins

Something I found reading The Week

QuoteThe Planets: Are there eight, ten, or dozens?

The long standing belief that there are nine planets in the solar system is wrong. Astronomers now say the real number is eight, or 10, or--depending on your definition of "planet"--perhaps dozens. The planetary debate was reignited by the recent discovery of a small reddish ball of rock and ice orbiting the sun. Called Sedna, after the Inuit sea goddess, it's an estimated 800 to 1,000 miles across, making it the largest object spotted in the solar system since Pluto was discovered, in 1930. Senda, three quarters Pluto's size, is so far out that it takes 10,500 yearsto circle the sun, in a highly eliptical orbit. It is also the coldest known body in the solar system; tempretures on Sedna's surface hover around minus 400 degrees Farenheit.

But is it a planet? Astronomer Micheal Brown, one of Sedna's discoverers, says it is too big to be a asteroid and too small to be considered a plaet, based on generally recognised stanards. But here's the wrinkle. If Sedna isn't a planet, Brown tells the Houston Chronicle, then Pluto isn't either. To be a planet, says Brown, an object needs to be "considerably larger than any other object in a similar location." Pluto lies within the Kuiper Belt--a band of debris contianing several asteroids close to its size. The International Astronomical Union defines a planet more brodly--as an orbiting body large enough to have been made a spheroid by its own gravity. Pluto fits this broder definition--and so does Sedna. And so do many countless undiscovered spheres on the rock-strewn outer boundaries of the solar system.

Trollax

Quote from: PlaidikinsSomething I found reading The Week

QuoteThe Planets: Are there eight, ten, or dozens?

The long standing belief that there are nine planets in the solar system is wrong. Astronomers now say the real number is eight, or 10, or--depending on your definition of "planet"--perhaps dozens. The planetary debate was reignited by the recent discovery of a small reddish ball of rock and ice orbiting the sun. Called Sedna, after the Inuit sea goddess, it's an estimated 800 to 1,000 miles across, making it the largest object spotted in the solar system since Pluto was discovered, in 1930. Senda, three quarters Pluto's size, is so far out that it takes 10,500 yearsto circle the sun, in a highly eliptical orbit. It is also the coldest known body in the solar system; tempretures on Sedna's surface hover around minus 400 degrees Farenheit.

But is it a planet? Astronomer Micheal Brown, one of Sedna's discoverers, says it is too big to be a asteroid and too small to be considered a plaet, based on generally recognised stanards. But here's the wrinkle. If Sedna isn't a planet, Brown tells the Houston Chronicle, then Pluto isn't either. To be a planet, says Brown, an object needs to be "considerably larger than any other object in a similar location." Pluto lies within the Kuiper Belt--a band of debris contianing several asteroids close to its size. The International Astronomical Union defines a planet more brodly--as an orbiting body large enough to have been made a spheroid by its own gravity. Pluto fits this broder definition--and so does Sedna. And so do many countless undiscovered spheres on the rock-strewn outer boundaries of the solar system.

OK... Let them argue over definitions and have punch-ups about which name attaches to what. I might matter in the latest edition of science review weekly but I don't give a rat's. While they argue... we'll go colonise!

Cain


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Quote from: nodaystowaste on March 21, 2004, 08:26:12 AM
SEDNA IS THE PLANET OF DISCORDIA!

um, Eris is the planet of discordia.  She killed Pluto and everything.
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Quote from: BabylonHoruv on June 22, 2009, 11:37:06 PM
Quote from: nodaystowaste on March 21, 2004, 08:26:12 AM
SEDNA IS THE PLANET OF DISCORDIA!

um, Eris is the planet of discordia.  She killed Pluto and everything.

WHAT? ERIS IS A PLANET?!?!!

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what ?? are you saying RAW has passed away?
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That's easy enough to check.

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)

Eris is named after the goddess Eris (Greek Έρις), a personification of strife and discord.[21] The name was assigned on September 13, 2006 following an unusually long period in which it was known by the provisional designation 2003 UB313.

So, yes.

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